But it happens multiple places along the narrative, Wes (honestly my favorite character by a long, long measure) is also running from how he feels about Isaiah and accepting the love being freely offered to him, exactly as and who he is.īeyond the main romance plot focusing on Jane and August this book is about found family, and the way we create our identity by the community we make around ourselves, especially in our twenties (although I did it again in my thirties). August uses her focus on solving the mystery of Jane to hide behind and it takes her entire found family unit to help build the confidence she needs to step out from behind that. August and Jane spend time circling around the growing love between them, afraid of what it means. So much of the story is about the fear of letting someone love you, of being brave enough to think you won’t let them down. She’s literally displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help her. August’s subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon, she discovers there’s one big problem: Jane doesn’t just look like an old school punk rocker. August, a young recent NYC transplant with a complicated history, falls head over heels for a woman she keeps running into on the Q train, Jane. One Last Stop is the story of August and Jane. Once announced I put One Last Stop on my to read list having faith in the author, if not exactly the premise.

Upon its completion I knew McQuiston was an author to add to my must reads list – they were writing the kind of queer romance I was looking for in the world.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.Įarly last year I read and loved Casey McQuiston’s debut Red, White, & Royal Bluelike many a Cannonballer before me.

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